650ml bottle. Some oxidation and cellar notes. Roasty, earthy and woody with some sweet syrup, molasses, ripe dark fruits, bourbon, rye, malts and hints of licorice. Perhaps has seen its best days already, but still really good.

From notes. A couple sample bottle pours at ChurchKey and Meridian Pint during Goose Island's Migration Week in September 2013. Black with tan ring of head. Aromas of subdued whiskey, dark chocolate, oak. Tastes of whiskey, dark chocolate, light oak a little dark fruit, subtle dark fruit. Full body with a dry finish. Great stuff.

22oz bottle pours out black topped with a tan head. Nose is nice big bourbon barrel notes vanilla sweet roast chocolate. Taste is more of the nice bourbon barrel notes vanilla sweet coffee chocolate milk fudge.

Bottle courtesy of hackobock. Pours blackish dark brown with a small creamy mocha head that leaves some very sparse trace on the glass while dissipating. Smell is malty and slightly fruity with roasted malts, caramel, cereal, vanilla fudge, charred wood, dark roast coffee, dark chocolate, leather, moist soil, prunes, raisins, dried cherries and bourbon alcohol. Taste is sweet, bitter, malty and fruity. Mouthfeel is viscous, round, tiny roasted astringent, very tiny fruity tart, slightly boozy and medium bodied. Finish is sweet and bitter with dark chocolate malts, oxidized dried dark fruits, coffee and bourbon. Clearly past its prime but still holds up well with it’s rather intriguing dried dark fruit oxidation character. --- Beer merged from original tick of Rare Bourbon County Brand Stout (2010) on 28 May 2016 at 16:49 - Score: 8. Original review text: Clearly past its prime but still holds up well with it’s rather intriguing dried dark fruit oxidation character.

Bottle at RBBWG 2016 in Antwerpen, bottled in November 2015, courtesy of Martinus, thanks a lot! Pitch black. Sweetish-malty, slightly fruity aroma of dark chocolate, coffee, licorice and dark ripe fruits. Sweetish-malty, slightly fruity aroma of caramel, dark chocolate, coffee, licorice and dark ripe fruits, followed by a medium long, slightly bitter, warming and moderately alcoholic finish. Medium to full body, creamy to oily mouthfeel. Great!

THANK YOU Martinus! 650 ml. bottle sampled @ RBBWG V. Pours a sludgy motor-oil black, only a very thin layer of mocha bubbles on the sides, close to zero head. Nose is warming molasses, syrup, thick chocolate bourbon, vanilla, brambleberries, blueberries, chocolate, astonishing. Taste is rich thick molasses, coated in chocolate, blueberries, brambleberries, molasses, sugar, bourbon, dates, vanilla, sweet chocolate, thick sludge, coffee. Very thick & chewy body. Wow this is good, ridiculous. The thing that kept the regular one from reaching perfection was that it was a small touch too boozy, this one isn’t, it has more elegance, more nuances. Not sure if age is the reason here, I have never had the regular one 5 years old or whether this beer had these qualities back when it was young. Either way, this is close to 5 with a bigger pour I might have upped it to a 5. This is astonishing, I feel like I might need to try more in order to fully explore it but I am happy surprised that I even managed to try it at all. Thanks a lot. The price of this one is another discussion.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Goose Island Bourbon County Stout - Rare 2010 (by Goose Island Beer Company (AB-InBev)):
Aroma: 10/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 10/10, Palate: 5/5, Overall: 19/20, MyTotalScore: 4.7/5

20/II/16 - 1Pt. 6Fl. Oz. bottle @ RBBWG V (Ben's place) - BB: n/a, 2010 vintage (2016-228) Thanks to Tinus for sharing the bottle!

Clear dark brown beer, small to no head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: wow, that's a lot of bourbon, vanilla, bit of green banana, sweet touch. MF: soft carbon, full body. Taste: sweet start, lots of bourbon, sugary, caramel, lots of dark chocolate. Aftertaste: very sweet, lots of vanilla, malty, crème brûlée, bourbon, dark chocolate, caramel. It is lovely shizzle.

Bottle @ joes. Dark brown colour with almost no head. Smells wine, alcohol apple syrup, sweet, boozy, red fruits. Tastes red fruits, oak, whisky, chocolate, roasty. Full body, soft carbo, sick taste.

Bottle at the Bourbon County tasting, De Molen, January 2015. Poured a clear dark brown with a rich roasty, molasses aroma. The flavour is moderate bitter sweet with a rich roast malt molasses, chocolate, alcoholic bitter palate. Full bodied with soft carbonation.